owl-me for OWLAPI v5

a Java-based module extractor for OWL ontologies

Built using the OWL API. This is an updated version of owl-me for use with OWL API version 5. In other words, this version will generate modules that can be loaded with Protege 5 (i.e., Protege Desktop).

All credit goes to Rafael Goncalves who developed the original tool.

For Users: Installing and using the tool

Requirements:

• Java Runtime Environment 1.8+
• An OWL ontology (.owl file)
• A CSV file containing a list of ontology terms (one on each line)

Steps:

1. Download the latest .jar file from the releases section of this repository.

2. Double click the .jar file to open the tool. Alternatively, from the commandline, execute:

java -jar -Xmx4G -DentityExpansionLimit=100000000 owl-me-${version}.jar

3. Load your input ontology and signature file

4. Select a location to save the output module, and click on the "Extract Module" button.

For Developers: Building the tool from source

Requirements:

• Apache's Maven.
• A tool for checking out a Git repository.
• Java JDK 1.8+

Steps:

1. Get a copy of the code:

    git clone https://github.com/kodymoodley/owlme.git
   

2. Change into the owlme/ directory.

3. Type mvn clean package. On build completion, the target/ directory will contain an owl-me-${version}.jar file.

License

This version of owl-me is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3. The original owl-me is developed by Rafael Goncalves and released under the same license.